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SHIRT AND BLOUSE HANGERS WITH ARM DRAPES Filed April 16, 1959 2 Sheets-Sheet. 1

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SPITZ 715 .55 H1 2o 26 ATTOPA/ZY Nov. 8, 1960 H. sPrrz SHIRT AND BLOUSE HANGERS wrrn ARM DRAPES 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed April 16, 1959 HERBERT BY ATTOlP/VE) United States Patent SHIRT AND BLOUSE HANGERS WITH ARM DRAPES Herbert Spitz, 100-25 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills, N.Y. Filed Apr. 16, 1959, Ser. No. 806,806

2 Claims. (Cl. 223-94) This invention relates to the art of garment hangers and particularly concerns an improved hanger for displaying shirts, blouses and the like.

According to the invention there is provided a hanger with a pair of angularly disposed arms for supporting arms of a shirt, blouse or other garment either in front of or at the rear of the garment. The arms may be disposed in various angular positions and extended or retracted to adjust the hanger to garments of various sizes.

It is therefore an object of the invention to provide an improved hanger for displaying garments.

It is a further object to provide a hanger having arms disposed in a plane at various angles.

it is a further object to provide a hanger with a body having telescoped portions angularly pivotable with respect to each other.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. l is an elevational view of a hanger embodying the invention with a shirt supported thereon and having its sleeves at the front of the shirt.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the hanger and shirt with the sleeves of the shirt at the back thereof.

Fig. 3 is an elevational rear view of the shirt and hanger of Fig. 2.

'Fig. 4 is an elevational view of the hanger per se.

'Fig. 5 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale of a portion of the hanger taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is an end view of the hanger.

Fig. 7 is an elevational view of another hanger according to the invention.

Fig. 8 is a sectional view taken on line 8-8 of Fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is a top view of the hanger of Figs. 7 and 8.

Fig. 10 is an elevational view of one arm of the hanger of Figs. 7-9.

Referring to Figs. 1-6, there is shown a hanger 10 having a hook type of handle 12 with a shank 14 pivotally secured in a sleeve extension 16 of a bracket plate 18. The plate has a lower rolled edge 17 having a longitudinal cylindrical passage 20 best shown in Fig. 5, in which is engaged the crossbar 22 of the hanger body. The bar 22 is bent at its ends to form two perpendicularly disposed depending sections 24 which are bent outwardly at obtuse angles to form the shoulder supporting sections 26. Sections 24 and 26 are coplanar with bar 22 of the hanger body. Bent angularly downward away from bar 22 and inwardly in the plane of the hanger body are two arms 28. The arms terminate in flexible knobs 30 which may be rubber or plastic elements secured to the ends of the arms.

The free ends of arms 28 are spaced apart in the ice plane of bar 22 and sections 24, 26 so that a shirt, blouse or other garment 32 having sleeves 34 may be displayed upon the hanger. The spaced angular disposition of the arms permits the sleeves to be disposed at the front F of the garment, as shown in Fig. 1, or at the rear R of the garment, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The sections 24 pass vertically through the collar 36 and the sections 26 support the shoulders 38 of the garment. The handle 12 is rotatable on the axis of shank 14 in sleeve extension 16. The body of the hanger is made from a single length of bent metal rod.

In the form of the invention shown in Figs. 7 to 10, the hanger 10 has bracket plate 18 supporting a pair of similar body members 40, 42. Each body member has a bar portion 22 which extends into the passage 44 of the elongated rolled tubular end 17 of the plate. bar portion 22 is frictionally rotatable and telescopically held in the passage 44 so that the body members can be extended to the dotted line positions shown in Fig. 7 or pivoted angularly as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 8.

Extending from the outer end of bar portion 22 is the depending section 24 and angularly disposed thereto at an obtuse angle is section 26*. Sections 24 and 26* are coplanar with bar portion 22*. Arm 28 is bent downwardly away from bar portion 22 and angularly ou-tward at an acute angle. The hanger 10 can be used in a manner similar to that of hanger 10 with the sleeves of the garment at the front or rear of the garment. In addition, the angular and telescopic adjustments of the body members permits the hanger 10 to support garments of different sizes in different display positions, without the necessity of pinning the garments as heretofore has been necessary.

All portions of hangers 10 and 10 are preferably made of bent metal rods with the exception of plates 18 and 18 which will be made of pressed and die punched metal plates.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise constructions herein disclosed and that various changes and modifications may be made within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A garment hanger, comprising a bracket having a rolled portion and a sleeve extension extending perpendicular to said portion, a handle having a hook at one end and a shank at the other end pivotally secured in said sleeve extension, and a hanger body supported by said bracket, said body having a crossbar portion supported in said rolled portion and extending out of opposite ends thereof, said crossbar portion terminating at its ends in perpendicularly bent short sections, said sections being integral with angularly outwardly and downwardly bent elongated sections, the last-named sections being integral with shorter arms bent angularly inwardly and downwardly thereto, said crossbar portion, short sections and elongated sections being coplanar with each other, said arms being disposed in a plane angularly disposed to the plane of the crossbar portion, short and elongated sections, each of the arms having a flexible knob at the free end thereof, the free ends of said arms being spaced apart so that a garment having sleeves can be supported by said body with the sleeves engaged on said arms and located at the front or back of the garment.

2. A garment hanger, comprising a bracket having a rolled portion and a sleeve extension extending perpendicular to said portion, a handle having a hook at one The end and a shank at the other end pivotally secured to said sleeve extension, and a hanger body supported by said bracket, said body consisting of two body members, each of the body membersshaving a short bar portion telescopically and rotatably disposed in said rolled portion, a depending body section extending perpendicular to the bar portion, an elongated shoulder section extending at an obtuse angle to said body section, said body end thereof, the free ends of the arms being spaced apart so that a garment having sleeves engaged on said arms can be located at the front 'or back of the hanger, whereby the telescopic and rotatable support of the body members enables the body to support garments of different sizes in different display positions.

' References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,458,066 -Le Compte June 5, 1923 2,648,468 Swi-Hoo Tan Aug. 11, 1953 2,707,070 Tanzer Apr. 26, 1955 

